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  1.  Yeppers. I think you are right dlewis. I am about to give up on the bluetooth dongle in Ubuntu. I haven't quit just yet though. There are so many factors involved. You install this when you should have installed that. If you change this it messes with the settings of that. Its mind boggling to say the least. I have "sudo gedit" as a very new part of my vocabulary lately.  :2funny:

     Here is where I am so far. I set up my rfconn file because I will need it later in this post. Here is part of that guide......

    http://img702.mytextgraphics.com/photolava/2008/08/17/blue11-fjz99jc1.png

     And my resulting file.........

    http://img108.mytextgraphics.com/photolava/2008/08/17/blue10-4bjslk6sb.png

     Oh, and by the way, sorry that I am posting links instead of code. I haven't quite figured out how to install the flash player for opera in Ubuntu. My firefox is down for some reason. It says that I am in offline mode, when i am good and well connected to the internet! That will be yet another issue I have to resolve.  :grin2:

    So anyway, then I followed this guide to set up wvdial, so that I can call out with my modem/phone...

    http://img801.mytextgraphics.com/photolava/2008/08/17/blue1-fjz8ewb4.png

    http://img108.mytextgraphics.com/photolava/2008/08/17/blue2-4bjscooak.png

    http://img702.mytextgraphics.com/photolava/2008/08/17/blue3-4bjsdgtus.png

    http://img902.mytextgraphics.com/photolava/2008/08/17/blue4-4bjsdsnoi.png

    And here is how my wvdial.conf file looks..........

    http://img107.mytextgraphics.com/photolava/2008/08/17/blue8-4bjsqwh00.png

    http://img802.mytextgraphics.com/photolava/2008/08/17/blue9-4bjsrtq7w.png

    And this is when I dial out with usb cable attached.........

    http://img902.mytextgraphics.com/photolava/2008/08/17/blue30-4bjt0i574.png

     Good connection, no problem.

    And now when I try to connect via bluetooth.........

    http://img108.mytextgraphics.com/photolava/2008/08/17/blue31-4bjt3eu35.png

    Bad Initialization string? What tha hank? Its the same init string that i use to connect via usb! Am I missing something here? Anyways. That is where I am at. I have tried and tried to find the APN setup for Alltel, but with no luck, so I figure it is the same as for connecting via usb.

    I think I am going to give it a rest for a couple of weeks and just be glad that I at least do have internet in Ubuntu through usb connection, and resolve some of my other Ubuntu issues.

  2.   Ok, may not seem like a big deal to those of you running around anywhere from 10000 Kbps to 40000 Kbps, but to me this is a big deal!!  Just checked my download speeds and a REmarkable!! improvement. Now that I am running in Ubuntu, and I think everything is straight, at least for the phone as modem connected to usb. Bluetooth is a different issue entirely, still can't get it to work.  :tickedoff:

      Anyway, this is what I was running in Windows XP........

    share2-47V2XNZY9

      And now with Ubuntu.

    share2-I1J2OWNPC

      Yay!!!!  :lol:

  3. OBAMA EXPLAINS THE NATIONAL ANTHEM

    Hot on the heels of his explanation for why he no longerwears a flag pin,presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama was forced to explain why he  doesn't follow protocol when the National Anthem is played.

    According to the United States Code, Title 36, Chapter 10, Sec. 171, During rendition of the national anthem when the flag is displayed, all present except those in uniform are expected to stand at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart. 

      'As I've said before about the flag pin, I don't want  to be perceived as taking sides,' Obama said.

      'There are a lot of people in  the world to whom the American flag is a symbol of oppression. And the  anthem itself conveys a war-like message. You know, the bombs bursting in air and all. It should be swapped for something less

    parochial and less  bellicose. I like the song 'I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing.' If that were our anthem, then I might salute it.'

    This is the first time I have seen this answer. I already thought he was a light weight, but from his own mouth he says, he doesn't want to take sides for theUSA ? How can he be President if he thinks of the American flag as a symbol of oppression and he can't respect our national anthem and what the words represent?  I do not believe that this radical liberal is in touch with the American people if he believes the American people would EVER consider changing the national anthem to his choice of 'I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing'. He apparently wants to salute a song but not the country's flag. What an idiot! This guy

    Maybe THIS is part of what he meant about 'change'?

    GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS OVERSEAS AND IN THE  HOMELAND.

    One Nation Under God

  4. Georgia men claim hairy, frozen corpse is bigfoot

    By MALIA WOLLAN, Associated Press Writer 26 minutes ago

    PALO ALTO, Calif. - Bigfoot or big fat lie? Whenever someone reports sighting the hairy beast of yore (details always fuzzy) or capturing the hirsute humanoid on film (images always grainy), it scares up a dubious debate of international proportions. Friday was just the latest episode in the Sasquatch show, as unreal as it may be.

    Two men who claim to have stumbled across a Bigfoot corpse in the woods of northern Georgia indignantly stood by their story at a news conference in Palo Alto during which they offered an e-mail from a scientist as evidence and acknowledged they wouldn't mind making a few bucks from the "find" they have kept stuffed in a freezer for over a month.

    "Everyone who has talked down to us is going to eat their words," predicted Matt Whitton, an officer on medical leave from the Clayton County Police Department.

    Whitton and Rick Dyer, a former corrections officer, announced the discovery in early July on YouTube videos and their Web site. Although they did not consider themselves devoted Bigfoot trackers before then, they have since started offering weekend search expeditions in Georgia for $499. The specimen they bagged, the men say, was one of several apelike creatures they spotted cavorting in the woods.

    As they faced a skeptical audience of several hundred journalists and Bigfoot fans that included one curiosity seeker in a Chewbacca suit, the pair were joined Friday by Tom Biscardi, head of a group called Searching for Bigfoot. Other Bigfoot hunters call Biscardi a huckster looking for media attention.

    Biscardi fielded most of the questions. Among them: Why should anyone accept the men's tale when they weren't willing to display their frozen artifact or pinpoint where they allegedly found it? How come bushwhackers aren't constantly tripping over primate remains if there are as many as 7,000 Bigfoots roaming the United States, as Biscardi claimed?

    "I understand where you are coming from, but how many real Bigfoot researchers are out there trekking 140,000 miles a year?" Biscardi said.

    Biscardi, Whitton and Dyer presented what they called evidence supporting the Bigfoot theory. It was an e-mail from a University of Minnesota scientist, but all it said was that of the three DNA samples sent to the scientist, one was human, one was likely a possum and the third could not be tested because of technical problems.

    At least one other Bigfoot researcher, Idaho State University anthropologist Jeffrey Meldrum, called the trio's claims "not compelling in the least." He told the Scientific American that photographs posted on the Web site "just looks like a costume with some fake guts thrown on top for effect."

    Whitton and Dyer have offered three different accounts of how they found the beast's remains.

    In early videos, the animal was shot by a former felon, and the men followed it into the woods. In a second version, they found a "family of Bigfoot" in the north Georgia mountains. In the third, the two were hiking and stumbled upon the corpse with open wounds.

    In one of their YouTube videos, they are shown speaking with a man they identify as a scientist. Earlier this week, they admitted that the man was Dyer's brother. Dyer said they were simply having fun.

    Asked why anyone should believe his claims when he already had shown a flair for tomfoolery, he suggested that skeptics simply are jealous.

    "They don't have a choice to believe us. We have a body," Dyer said.

    ___

    Associated Press writer Juanita Cousins in Atlanta contributed to this report.

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    ___

    On the Net:

    Bigfoot Tracker: http://www.bigfoottracker.com

    Big Foot Field Researchers Organization: http://www.bfro.net/

  5.   Kewl Buntz. that'll work. Wow, all this time I thought  I was the only one trying this Ubuntu or linux thing, at least in this forum anyway. I am glad to know there are people here to turn to when I have questions. Thanks Mudmanc4 and Buntz.

      Ha ha, now to put that to use........lol. I probably am dumb for asking it, and when I get the problem resolved I am going to be duh! It was right there in front of my face this whole time. The question is concerning bluetooth. I connect to the internet currently through using "wvdial" in Ubuntu. I use my phone as a modem.  I have installed the kde bluetooth, tried to set it all up, read several topics in several forums, etc. The thing just does not work. In Windows, all I have to do is set my phone to bluetooth and click on the bluetooth icon on the taskbar, connect to the internet and I am done. In Ubuntu the only thing that is available for bluetooth, or at least in my setup, is file transfer. Modem isn't even a choice. I have tried downloading and installing a package from Bluesoleil, but it says it is dependent on asus something or another.

      I mean, I am happy to finally have internet set up on Ubuntu. But, just like in windows, when the battery goes dead on my phone, I have to unplug the usb cable and plug in my charger. Unfortunately my alltel hue does not charge through the usb cable. So I contained the problem in windows by using bluetooth to connect while my phone is charging. I would love to do the same with Ubuntu, but I just can't figure it out.  :undecided:

  6.   Just a follow up. I booted from the live cd of ubuntu and started gparted. I went through the process of shrinking the Ubuntu partition, down to roughly 20gigs, in the hopes that I could increase the Windows partition. Well unfortunately, the 20 gigs of Ubuntu was all the way left. so I then had to move that partition all the way right, leaving about 120 gigs of free space between Ubuntu and Windows. Well, wouldn't you know it, there is no way to expand the windows to the right into that free space.

      So anyway, what I ended up doing was just install a new ubuntu partition and did a guided, then changing to my windows partition having a little under half of the hdd, and ubuntu having a little under half.  :idiot2: I should have done that in the first place.

      Well, I now have everything set up right and I am leaving it that way, not going to touch it again. Or, at least until October when they come out with an Ubuntu update.  :grin:

      Thanks for the help Mudmanc4.

  7.  Nice. Hmm, they have sunrises even in iraq. That's awesome Tstillery. I have been thinking about going back in. I am a State and Nationally certified Pharmacy Technician. I have been talking to an Army special recruiter and I would get a bonus and enlist as a non-commisioned officer. I know sure as I joined, though, they would ship me right over there. And with things escalating in Russia/Georgia, who knows whats going to happen.

     Anyway, I know I have said it before, but I don't think I can say it enough. Thanks bud for all that you do. Go Army!

  8.   I just had a question, and it is really not concerning speed or tweaking ip settings, so I decided to post it in here, since it is kind of off topic.

      I know there are a few among us that run linux or ubuntu, or some other distro of such. If you have been following my posts you see that I have had quite a fun time this past week, NOT. lol. Well I have finally got windows and ubuntu working together harmoniously on my WD 160gb hard drive. when I want to boot into windows, i boot at startup, same for ubuntu. I have finally got internet working on ubuntu, and all is well in the land of double os's.  :cheesy:

      Just one minor problem though. When I installed Ubuntu, it left around 7gb of the drive reserved for Windows XP. The rest, around 150gb or so, it took for itself. Well now when I try to download something or install into Windows, it says I do not have enough disk space. I am pretty new to ubuntu/linux, and am just a noob, really. So is there any way to repartion the drive so that Windows could have 70 or so gb and ubuntu 70? I tried by using the ubuntu cd to change the sizes manually, but it doesn't work. I have read all I could in forum after forum, and to be quite honest, it was just like as , i think it was ninjageek said, most of the people on linux forums don't really explain things in a way that a noob such as myself would understand.

      So with all that being said, does anyone know how to repartition the drive to make windows xp have a bigger partition after an install of ubuntu?

      Thanks for any help.

  9.   Welcome back Ca3le. We missed ya bud. Sounds like you had a heck of a trip.I would love to visit Napa Valley. Heck for that matter any where out west. Haven't been in a while. Not since my Navy days. 

    The google deal is pretty kewl though.Hopefully you'll be able to get everything else straight.  Anyway, welcome back!!

  10. Ohhhhh! Now I see said the blind man. At the very bottom left of the browser window. Well gooolleeee. :2funny:I amaze myself sometimes. You might have to show me how to do something 2 or 3 times, but once I get it, I gets it, ya know. So why is ca3le #2? I thought he was the original and owner. And has anyone noticed we haven't heard from him in a while? Ca3le, we miss ya bud.

    Anyway, thinks for helping out there mama T. I finally get it.

    ***edit- oops i confligurate my statement(lol, is that a word?)  I see Ca3le is back. Welcome back!!

  11. :buck2: Huh? lol, jk. Yea you confused me a little, but that is not hard to do Mama T. I get the gist of what you are saying though. But when it comes to the hover number, all I get when I hover is "view the profile of xxxx" *xxxx being the member name.
  12.   Kewl Mudmanc4. Wow, I did not know that was even possible. I think my next computer is going to be an Apple. Soon as I get done abusing the heck out of this one.  :grin: And by triple boot, do you mean that you would be able to have the three instances running at the same time on one screen, or meaning you can boot up into either of the three. 'coz where I am at right now, I can only boot up and either run windows xp, or boot up and run Ubuntu. I have heard that you can run windows and linux at the same time, switching desktops to get to either. I just don't know how to do it. I think I will research on the topic. I heard it takes up a lot of memory resources and such though, so I definately need to see about investing in a new computer. I might just do that and keep this computer just to run Folding@Home  :grin2: Then it could run 24/7 without interruption.(Wow. Imagine how many WU's I could do then. lol.) Wouldn't be able to catch up to you though.  :smile2:

    -ninjageek. Awesome! I would be very interested in trying out that guide, as I am sure a lot more people as well. When it comes to a way to back up the comp you can never have enough resources. In the past week or so I have lost an innumerous amount of data due to one pesky little virus. (And to tell you the truth, the windows copy that i swapped to my hard drive from my mom's comp I think has a virus as well.) I have just been so busy trying out this Ubuntu that I haven't tended to it. I am almost done learning all the basic stuff with ubuntu so I think I will care for windows tonite. lol. I will definately work with the guide when you complete it. Thanks.

  13.   Yep, that is true mudmanc4. I have even tested from a fresh clean install and windows was still lower than the speeds I am getting with ubuntu/linux. And the weird thing.....I download something in winxp and the d/l speeds are usually 40-50 kbps, where in ubuntu, last night I was downloading ubuntu updates, and it was downloading at 100-105 kbps. Awesome!!!

  14.   Guys, this has been great. So much input on this.

      --NinjaGeek - Hey, I am up for anything. After I get a little more self-training on Ubuntu, I think Nlite will be my next project. I would love to be able to have an xpsp3 restore disk. Reading through your previous posts on the subject it sounds like a little bit of a challenge, but challenge is my middle name.  :grin: I think it would be fun and at the same time educational. Hmm, that's the same thing I said when I signed up for sex ed in high school. Lmao. I think if you make a guide it should definately be posted and stickied in the forum, would be very useful. And you are very truthful when you say the Linux community, well in general, are way too geeked out. Learning this Ubuntu, I have had to go to several information superhiways on the subject and culminate all of them into something this old brain of mine can understand. Kind of like going around your arse to get to your elbow, you finally get it in the end. The main thing about Ubuntu is that it is more console/command line based, or as Linux/Ubuntu puts it "terminal" based. A lot of programming to do. And good Lawd, to install a program is sooo hard. But it is starting to get easier to me now that I am learning the proper language and input for the command lines.

    --Mama T. Someone was making a guide on dual boot with WinXp and Linux? 'coz that is what I am currently trying to work with. I have Winxp on one partition of my hard drive and Ubuntu on another partition. Although I cant boot them both at the same time. A guide like that would be great too.

    --Mudmanc4. You were the one working on dual boot? Was it for WinXp and Leopard?  :shocked: Maybe I am reading this thread wrong. I don't think that would be possible. Anyway,  :grin:

  15.   Just an update on the virus problem. I still have avast, but I am putting it on hold for a while. I researched and decided to install Avira antivirus. It is the free edition, so ads are everywhere, but it seems a pretty good program. I tested it against some faux viruses and all in all it came out better than avast did. I will let you know how it performs in the long haul. I am really mad that I lost all the work for folding@home, but I have reinstalled and going at it again. Oh well, through this little ordeal I have learned a lot and some interesting doors were opened.

      Namely, concerning Ubuntu. I had said in my previous post that I installed Ubuntu, but could not get it to connect to the internet, so I ditched it. Well, it got me kind of ticked, I am never one to let a program or application get the best of me. I taught myself all I know about computers, and I wasn't  about to let Ubuntu, or linux in general have the best of me. I have never used this operating system and believe me, I am quite the noob when it comes to gnu, or any type of open configuration programs. But I kept at it and researched and learned much about the program. I am writing to you from Ubuntu. I finally figured out how to connect to the internet!!! yay.  :grin:  There is still very much I have to learn, but hey, all I have is time right? lol.

      Anyway, cheers to all.

      Chris

  16. That's an even better plan. I really don't understand what joy they get out of such a thing. Oh, and an update. I am almost finished getting things back the way I like them. If the d**n hackers only knew how many hours it takes to redo everything. Ah, they probably do know. Jerks.

  17.   Done. Thanx Philly for posting that. My mom is a breast cancer survivor. She got breast cancer in 1987 and had to have a radical mastectomy. She came through that fine, thank God. They say if you go 10 years cancer free after having cancer and removing it, you are pretty much free from it. Well almost 10 years to the day, in 1997, they found cancer again. And again she had to have a mastectomy, this time removing the only one left. Thankfully she came through it again fine. I know in my heart she survived both times because of early detection, giving the doctors a chance to remove the cancer before it spread. That is why mammograms are SO very important.

      Thanks again,

      Chris

  18.   Hello gang. Been away for a while because I had a BIG problem with a little virus.  :angry: Somehow, through downloading an app. somewhere, I obtained a virus. Avast was good, it alerted me to the fact that I had a virus and offered to s**tcan it for me. I proceded to quarantine the son of a gun. Well something must not have clicked with Avast, and so I had to try to restore my comp.Don't get me wrong. I love Avast and still have it even now. This is a one time incident in well over 4 years.

      I always back up my drive frequently in case such an event happens. Well somehow the virus wiped out all of my restore points as well. OK, no problem, time to go to plan B. I pull out my handy dandy copy of the reinstallation cd that came with the comp. We're cooking now....everything is going to be fine. Wrong!  After going through the process of formatting the drive, it goes into the copying of files for installation. I get to 2% and BAM! "unable to copy file mvboli.tts" or something like that. Well, ok, maybe just one file, so I hit escape to skip said file. Well all in all, there were approximately 20 files that I ended up having to skip. I figured maybe I could download the files from Microsoft later. After finishing windows reboots and starts to go into the final installation mode and nanu nanu! *error*. "Stop 0000021A. The Windows Logon process system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0x00000135. The system has been shut down." 

      Oh Great! So then and only then I actually examine the reinstallation cd. It is scratched up worse than two high school girls after a catfight. Bummer. Hmm, I forgot, I have a copy of Ubuntu that was sent to me through the mail from the Island of Man. (Where tha heck is the Island of Man, about 10 nautical miles away from the islet of Woman?) Anyway, so all is not lost, I will just install Ubuntu. I heard that linux is a cool operating system, I'm going to give it a try.

      So I get Ubuntu all installed. It looks pretty neat, definately different than Windows. Then, the last straw! The drivers I have for my phone to use as a modem are all windows files. Linux does not recognize those files. Grrrr!!! Ok, maybe time for plan D - - pick up my computer, take it out in the back yard, dig a hole, place said computer in hole, cover with charcoal lighter fluid, ignite with a match, and BURN baby BURN. Well I didn't get that drastic. My mom has the same computer as I do, and I had the software for my Western Digital hard drive. And no, there were not any scratches on that cd, thank goodness. I just copied all of the files off Mom's hard drive to mine, including Windows XP.

      And so here I am. Missed ya'll and I hope not to have that happen again. It has been an ordeal, let me tell ya. So, question. Does anyone have any suggestions for (free or next to free) anti-virus software? I think I will stick with Avast, but just checking my options.  I know I tried CA antivirus and antispy, but it is just TOO busy and took up so much memory. The same can be said for Norton. I tried that too.

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